7. He shouted, “Jesus, Son of God in heaven, what do you want with me? Promise me in God's name that you won't torture me!”
8. The man said this because Jesus had already told the evil spirit to come out of him.
9. Jesus asked, “What is your name?”The man answered, “My name is Lots, because I have ‘lots’ of evil spirits.”
10. He then begged Jesus not to send them away.
11. Over on the hillside a large herd of pigs was feeding.
12. So the evil spirits begged Jesus, “Send us into those pigs! Let us go into them.”
13. Jesus let them go, and they went out of the man and into the pigs. The whole herd of about two thousand pigs rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned.
14. The men taking care of the pigs ran to the town and the farms to spread the news. Then the people came out to see what had happened.
15. When they came to Jesus, they saw the man who had once been full of demons. He was sitting there with his clothes on and in his right mind, and they were terrified.
16. Everyone who had seen what had happened told about the man and the pigs.
17. Then the people started begging Jesus to leave their part of the country.
18. When Jesus was getting into the boat, the man begged to go with him.